The Library of Moria's LJ community

I would like to make you all aware of the Tumblr, I haven't really promoted it much since it was just there. We decided on doing a weekly update on stories posted to LoM and a weekly spotlight.

This spotlight can be a new story that you really love or a story of old, email me with the link darlingazzy[at]gmail[dot]com, or comment below if you have any suggestions.

If you'd like me to cross post it to LJ I would love to do that, but I would like to hear in the comments if that even has interest.

Only criteria is that the story is located on LoM.

I will also remind you all that the Tumblr allows people to submit stuff, so you can do that.

http://libraryofmoria.tumblr.com/

First off I would like to say from all of us mods, that the LoM is very dear to us, and we want nothing more than for it to exist for longer than Thranduil lived. But we all decided that we do not want to have all the work, and all the expenses, so it runs purely on donations. (not saying that we don't donate though). And this brings me to my point, so all of you who donated in our last donation drive, you should know that you paid for the host, and for the site to be on those servers till sometime this June.

What happened and why the site is offline, is because as I understand it, the domain was not registered with the host, and also sold to third party company while we have owned/used it. And so due to lack of comunication, none of us knew that the domain was about to expire. What we are trying to do is to re-buy the domain, so the site can come up on the dot-com where it belongs. There has not been a solution today, but we hope there will be one in the near future. Should you need a fix, you can always swing by the forum.

I will get back to you all when we either find a solution, or it's solved, but I assure you we are on it like hobbits on second breakfast. =)

I really don't know why the .com doesn't work for everyone, and I hardly think that the people we have to rely on for tech help does either. Since it's not the first time we have had similar problems. So for all you who have problems with that link, and gets redirected to something weird, try http://www.libraryofmoria.com/a/index.php instead.

Merry Christmas & Happy Hobbit.

I would have said something about the explore LJ issue, but i saw that erestor explained that better than i could ever hope to. so go read it HERE Have you not read it, i think you should, cuz its pretty important stuff.

I will still do a backup of this journal. just in case. i personally would rather be safe, than sorry. But I don't really think we need to abandon ship yet. But it seems like it is indeed under aged smut or shota if you will, that has LJ abuse team's pants in a twist, then i would prefer for all of our creative freedom, that this entire community is just friends locked. I really don't want to go about locking off specific stories or even single chapters because they contain possible upsetting material. I am personally of the opinion that the author should warn properly, and if you don't want to read a specific warning, then don't click the link.

So to make that long prattle short. I want to friends lock libraryofmoria

[Poll #1033715]

EDIT: I can see on the replies that i should explain why i suggest the community closed. it is not because of lj abuse team, nor the big strikethrough, or paranoia. it is the "report abuse" button feature that i don't like, and i have to admit that a stazi method like that makes me a little (read:a lot) uneasy. So i figured that locking the community might filter some of those out before they even begin. I personally dont think that LoM LJ looses anything from doing it. As i said, i'd actually rather not friends lock any community, but i think that we would benefit from it in the long run, and i don't think that we'd draw negative attention to ourselves, i don't think that we are in the spotlight at all.. its all just a precaution. And at last i want to say, i made this poll, and posted my oppinion, beacuse i thought i was the only admin around these days, thinking the others were busy with life and such, figuring there was no harm in asking the members oppinion. This is just a poll! And no action of any kind will be taken before all the maintainers agree. - thanks for you time! Az